How to source a 70’s item

Hiya. When on a mission, I know how to research an item via the web to within an inch of my life…but I’m stumped for this one, as I don’t know what to ‘type into the subject header/description’ in order to find it!!!

It was a 70’s piece of livingroom decor…it didn’t serve any purpose - just was groovy and very of its’ time. Stem black, black wire bendy/moving/waving around arms… And at the end of each bending black wire arm - a silver ball. An utterly pointless gizmo - but utterly groovy.

I’m trying to find one. It doesn’t need to be from the 70’s - there are plenty of brand new ‘retro styled items’ from that era i.e. lava lamps, Newton’s cradle etc. But this item was just a cheepy bit of fun for the house in the 70’s and I can’t find the wording for it, in order to search for its modern repro counterpart!!!

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Do you mean a kinetic ball sculpture? Looks like originals go for some serious money…

https://www.1stdibs.co.uk/furniture/decorative-objects/sculptures/mobiles-kinetic-sculptures/1960s-kinetic-ball-sculpture/id-f_10454623/?utm_content=test&currency=gbp&gclid=CjwKCAjwzenbBRB3EiwAItS-u5pcelTPuAejkpXJVtS9RaQqDDtuCnTe7HCuHg9K2jKfMkyCXDEtJRoCVAsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Fun to make though I reckon

There are cheaper similar things on Etsy e.g.

(I searched for ‘kinetic ball sculpture’, but ‘ball tree’ may yield more results too)

My wife just reminded me that a friend of ours has a similarly styled table lamp from IKEA

https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/lighting/table-lamps/hovnäs-table-lamp-art-70388856/

I can’t believe how expensive some of them are! Thanks for all your replies!

I’ve just had a hankering to find one of these again… so, it’s called a Kinetic ball sculpture eh? Sadly, 2.5 years after I raised this original topic - a chrome kinetic ball sculpture seems to be even more expensive and rarer to find than a Dodo. It’s so sad when I think of all the 1970’s things that were around my house when I was a child, and yet have disappeared. My mum was never a ‘throw away’ person - and yet they just seem to have gone, and now I’d love to have them back on display.